NOTE Again, thanks guys for the comments! Anyway, I hope people don't start to think two Juliet's and two Dr. Craggiers are running around. The Juliet talking to Jack, was the same Juliet that was kidnapped from Sam's group of people. Dr. Craggier, the man who tells Henry to kill Jack, Kate, and Sawyer, and to get Aaron, is the same man who talks to Tim into kidnapping the two kids. Yes, Craggier is Hanso. So if you're asking why Juliet is working with the Others who are apparently working for Hanso, you're asking the right question. Is she a spy? All right, I'm going to stop now before I actually…. Tell you anything lol!

Thought I should clear that up before anyone gets to lost.

Chapter 3. "Julie's got a Gun."

Claire sat over a sleeping Charlie for nearly fifteen minutes. Where were Eko and John? They had not come back yet, and Charlie seemed reluctant to talk.

Did she kiss shim? Yes, she kissed him. It was wrong. He was drug addict, and she didn't care if he was recovering. She had to do what was best for Aaron. Her son, was her life now, and no one would ever stand in the way of that.

But he was so gentle to her, as if he were Aaron's real father. That part scared her as well.

She loved him, no matter how hard she fought it. In another place, like home, she would have blown him off, and she might have even given him a good bloody nose. But not here.

Of course in another place she would not even have Aaron. She would have given him up to some family, who didn't even love him, and he'd grow up hating her, and she'd regret it for the rest of her life.

The fact that she was going to give him to Ethan still made her sick to her stomach

Her eyes moved up. Coming towards her was John, Eko, Desmond, and Hurley! She yelled and ran up to them, throwing her arms around John.

"Oh your not dead!" she smiled brightly. "What…happened? The whit light? The door? What happened?"

But John never got the chance to answer, Eko was shouting to the camp, "EVERYONE! WE NEED TO TALK! EVERONE COME HERE!'

After everyone gathered around, rather annoyed at the situation, John told them to sit down, and stop talking. "We let the clock—I let the clock go down to zero," John yelled. "We found another orientation video. It said that this was just an experiment…I was wrong. The Hatch started shacking, things were going crazy. Desmond turned the failsafe. The Hatch is gone. We all blacked out.

Hurley was the next to explain what happened to him and Jack, Kate, and Sawyer.

"What about Sayid?" Scott interrupted. "Jin? Sun? What if they caught too?"

Everyone started speaking at once.

"We have to do something!" Bernard yelled.

"Do what? We have practically no guns left, honey!" Rose cut in.

"We just can't sit here and let them take us one by one!" snapped Charlie. He had woken up immediately and gone over to stand by Eko. "What fi they come back?

Arguments broke out with all 40 people at once. "We don't even know where they live, as some said, "I can't leave my wife" or "I can't leave my brother". At the same time others said, "What if their dead?" "Then we bring back he bodies!" "It's suicide" "And so Is sitting here and doing nothing!" "What are we going to do without a doctar?" "What are we going to do without are 3 strongest people?" "What are we going to without the Iraqi Solder?" "What are we going to do without gun?" "What do we do without a leader?" "They just wouldn't kidnap us…it doesn't' make any since!"

"ENOUGH!" shouted Eko. Everyone stopped talking at once, as if someone had pushed a mute button. "Please, be quiet. They want to split us up. They want us to—"

"Yah, and you got a plan?" called one of the castaways, angrily. "You were in the tail section. I don't' recall you people fighting back! Maybe that why they came here! They wanted to weed out the rest of the tail section! Maybe you brought them here!"

"Would you shut up, Davis" Charlie turned red.

"Since when are you his sidekick, Charlie?"

Eko turned to John. "We need to have a plan."

"A plan, right,"

Desmond cleared his throat. "Tell me more about these Others, brother."

Down the corridor from Jack's cell, down two flights of stairs, and a left at the infirmary, Sawyer struggled to break his chains. The room was exactly the same as Jack's, only four Others were guarding him.

"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" he yelled. He shouted for hours and hours, without end, cursing and spiting at the gaurs who pared at him through the glass wall. But they did nothing but laugh.

He couldn't take it anymore. His voice had gone hoarse. For once in his life, Sawyer could not speak.

The door opened suddenly, and a girl, probably the age of a teenager, walked into the room. She carried a needle in her pocket, and a bowl of black go. It looked like soup, but Sawyer wanted to throw up. It smelled like Valmont.

The girl put the bowl on the floor and took out the needle.

"Hey! What do you think your doing with that needle, kid?" said Sawyer, faintly. "I'm sure if I didn't have these chains on, I could jump on you and stick that thing in ah…. Hey, you look familiar, by the way."

: The girl's hand started to tremble. The hand with the needle in it came closer to his neck.

"Hate to this a girl but…" He grabbed her hand and squeezed it so hard, the girl's hand started to go numb. She kneed him and shot the needle in him! He tried to grab her neck.

"LET ME OUT OF EHRE!"

She grabbed her gun, and punched him in the stomach! Sawyer released her from his grip.

"Well you have a good hook…. Sister. You got a name, or do you just not talk?"

"It's Alex," she replied, putting her gun away, taking several steps back from Sawyer, frightened. Her whole body shook. Her face turned pink and her hand was blue.

Sawyer chuckled. "I'm all chained up and you're afraid of me? Now….Alex…..Wait…how old are you? 12?"

Alex ruled her eyes."16"

A look of shock appeared on Sawyer's face. "You? You're the Mad woman's' daughter? The French chick? The one that caught Mr. Butterfly Valve in her net?"

"She's still alive?" Alex raised her eyebrows. "But…why should I believe you, you're a murderer?"

"I ain't the one that kidnapped a girl to take her baby and kill her, Buttercup. And how do you know so much about us anyway? What's you guys gonna do to us?"

"I don't know, they don't tell me anything ever since I set Claire free…."

"That was you"

"Yeah…."

"Wouldn't they have killed you?"

"Ethan was never a smart guy…. He was mad. Henry said if I did it again…. Bad things would happen, I mean, to you, not to me. How's Claire? Did she have her baby?"

Sawyer nodded. "Yeah, named it Aaron."

"Cute name. You gonna eat that, James?"

"Poison?"

Alex shook her head.

Sawyer picked up the bowl and tasted it. "It tastes like pee. You know though, little girl, it's kinds of funny how they didn't brainwash you. Unless you lied, this is poison, or just pee, and your just trying to get me to talk. You've been here 16 years and yet you let my friend, go, and don't get in any type of trouble for it. Kind of funny, ain't it?"

"Yes, I suppose…" nodded Alex, as she walked out of the room. .

Juliet ran after Henry. "GALE! GALE!"

"What, is it?" he said, turning around to face her, and walking on when she caught up to him.

"You swore to me you wouldn't kill these people. You swore me I'd help you and you'd get me my children back. How can I help you do whatever it is you want me to do if they're dead?"

"Well, tell me, are they dead?" smiled Henry.

" What are you going to do? Bea told me about what they savage said on the phone!"

"Relax, someone is going to hear you. What we do to them is our business."

The two walked b Kate's cell and they looked through the glass wall. "How do you even know they are the right ones?" whispered Juliet.

"Because I know. Just trust me, okay?" Henry laughed. "Besides, why do you care about these people? They're not your kids. Now, her name is Kate. Fugitive from the law for many years. Murder, armed Robbery, the basic of a good girl gone wrong.'

"What do you want with these folks, Henry?" Juliet cut in. "If you want them dead, you shot them. What are you after? Why are you making me do this? What I have to do? You just said that if I help you with these prisoners, you'd let me go with my kids and go the crew on the boat off this island. What are you after?"

"I'm after making my superiors happy. But sometimes, you got to negotiate with the enemy, if you know what I mean. They got no more use for your kids. So…let's do this."

Henry turned to the two guards who had been standing there the whole time. "Untie her, bring her out here."

The two guards marched into the room. They untied Kate. She yelled, "WHO ARE YU PEOPLE! LET GO OF ME!"

They dragged her out. The minute she saw Henry, she spat in his face. Henry laughed.

"You be a good girl now, Kate," he removed a gun from his pocket. "Don't make me put a bullet between those two nice brown eyes of yours."

"Why don't ou just do it? What's the matter? I know you want too. You never got the chance to kill Claire, what's that, a whole mouth without killing a person? And the real Henry just didn't' scream loud enough. I know who you are!"

"And who's that, Kate?"

"A murdering, baby-eating, coward…."

Kate must have hit a nerve. Henry's face turned red, you'd wander why smoke did come out of his ears. He clinched his fists, and had a look on him of something greater then that of hate, and something greater then that of drunken madness. He grabbed her by the throat. "Don you dare."

FLACKBACK

A neighbor found Juliet several minutes later. A doctor, he sped her off to the hospital.

Mouths went by in the hospital The Police Chief always aid "he was one step closer to finding them", but he never was. No, Juliet's story did not even make the evening news. I was almost as if the world has completely forgotten that her kids were kidnapped, and by her own husband! No, it wasn't right

After she left the hospital, the Police would never answer her calls. And whenever she walked down the street, she felt as if she were being watched, as if every turn she made was going to lead her to her death. But none of it matters. None of it at all.

One day, she wouldn't take it anymore. She stormed into the Police Chief's office. "Where are my kids, Chief?"

The Chief sighed. "Look, we're doing the best we can. Juliet, I think…. I think it might be time for you to consider a memorial…. Because they've been gone for over four mouths. And…. We've had 15 murders in the last mouth."

"Oh so my kids are just on the backburner right? I'm not doing anything until I at least get a body."

"Juliet!"

"You've found Tim, at least?"

The Chief shook hi s head.

"Oh yeah I forgot, old army buddies stick up for each other, right? WHERE ARE MY KIDS?"

"Juliet, if you don't calm down, I'm going to ask you to leave, now I assure you we're doing everything in our power to find your kids."

"WELL DO MORE! DO MORE THEN MORE! OR I WILL DO IT ALL MYSELF! I'LL KILL HIM TOO—

"Juliet! I assure you, if you take it upon yourself to become a vigilante, you will be a criminal and never get your children back…ever."

Juliet stormed out of the room. She charged down the hall and stood in the doorway. She wiped tears that she could not hold back. She straightened herself up, and paced over to her car.

"Juliet!' a voice, like a man from deep Texas would speak, came from behind.

"No, I don't have any money," she snapped.

"What? Oh, no I ain't a drug dealer, none of 'dat, or nothin' of that sort. My name is Sam, and I overheard you talking to the Chief."

"How do you know my name?" she shot a dirty look at the towering, southerner. "I don't want to talk to you."

"What if I were to tell you that you're not the only mother whose children ahs been taken. We're an army, don't you know? There's a whole bunch of us. Shafted, because of Hanso…ruined. We're fighting back. We want you to join. Alright, what if I were to tell you, Hanso put a bomb in your car that'll explode…..now…"

Suddenly, Sam grabbed her, and covered her mouth! She started screaming as he dragged her away.

BOOM!

Juliet's car exploded in a heap of fire! Everyone around screamed and yelled. Juliet kicked Sam, but he paid no mind.

"Can't stop here, Princess!" he hissed. He ran her through the parking lot and opened the backdoor of a black car. He threw her in, and got in afterward, yelling "PUNCTH IT, BENSON!"

The driver pit the pedal before Sam even managed to close the door.

"They took your kids to Austria. But your husband is still here. Did you know that?

"Your insane. Do you even have a last name? How did you know mine? How come I never saw you?"

"My last name is Thomas. You never saw me because I keep a low profile…. A Mole In the Police Force told us what happened…we have eyes and ears everywhere…it's a secret war, Juliet—"

"You said you knew where my husband is?"

"Yes…"

It all seemed unreal, and yet it was all happening. And Juliet, who was never a woman to miss any opportunity, would stop at nothing to get her kids back. That man stole her kids! He ruined her life! He shot her! "Take me to him…..and I want a gun."

Sayid stood in the front of the boat, looking out into the ocean. Rico, and Sam stood in the end of the boat, and Sun and Jin stood to the right, whispering in Korean. The two women stood next to Sayid.

The first woman, Kelly, a blond woman in her early 20s, had gotten seasick. Joan, red-haired, and green eyed, in her 30s but looking like she was 23, said that it was completely normal. The two talked on of many things for a long time.

"Is tat your camp?" Joan said to Sayid, pointing to a camp up ahead. Crowds of people were gathering. John, Eko, Charlie, and Desmond, all stood in front of the gathering mob, armed with guns at ready to shoot.

"Well, well, well, looks like we don't have to eat you," Rico laughed.

"Now, now, let's not be rash…them people got guns," cut in Sam.

They all walked off the boat. Sayed yelled, "it's alright! Everything is alright! They came over on a boat crash!"

Eko, John, Sayed, Sun, Charlie, Jin, Hurley, Joan, and Kelly meant in a small campfire. Rico sat nearly 100 yards away, with Claire and Aaron.

"Alright,' sighed John, "what happened to you people?"

"It was two years ago. We were on a boat from Austria to LA. And…there was a storm. We crashed on this island. 89 of us survived the crash. On thee ninth night we sent out two of our people to get some firewood, the Others took the first one, and the second one came off to tell us. That is when it began. The next night they came and took 10 of us. On the ninth they came back. Only this time, they hung three of us back our necks. We ran off, and never saw them again for almost a mouth. Our leader, Juliet, they took then too. And we had it. So we went to get our people back. But they outgunned us. So we went away….and we found something…an underwater Hatch. And it had guns. But the Others…they were everywhere. We fought and fought. Last week they killed ten of us in a battle. 89 of us survived that boat crash, but there are about 15 of us left,. 16 of us were hung, 30 died in battle, and the rest our in…their prisons or something."

John grabbed Sayid's arm and led him several yards away from the group. "Do you trust them?"

Sayid pondered the though for a minute. "Yes….yes I do. Although, I find that Sam…..I feel uneasy around him. I wouldn't be surprised if he ever sold anyone out but….I say we have nothing to loose. Unless you want to end up like them?"

John turned back to Sam. "You know where this place is? They're home? And this….underwater Hatch?"

"Yes, I know where it is, I can take you. We can go together. And we can end this with one last battle."

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FLASHBACK

"Your right, the Police Chief does love his army buddy," Sam laughed. "Stop here!" he snapped. The car pulled over by a bridge that looked out into the ocean. Sam pointed up. "Is that your husband up there? Looks like he colored his hair. Funny."

Sam handed Juliet the gun. She slammed the door and ran up to the bridge. A man stood, watching her. 'Hello, Hon," she said, giving a pretend smile, and revealing her gun. "Tell me where they are, Tim."

Tim shook his head. "It ain't right, you know. You gonna' into some strangers car and listening to every word he says after two minutes of meeting him. Now I'll tell you where you want to go, but you got to listen to me. Hanso wants me dead, so you'll be doing him a favor…."

"Why would he want you dead?"

'Because he doesn't need me anymore, okay? There! Now please, let's talk about this. Don't throw your life away—"

"No, I through my life away when I married you, baby! This bullet has Got your name on it. Goodbye."

"NO WAIT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!"

Juliet squeezed the trigger, BANG! Her hand started trembling. She ha just killed a man. "Oh my go—" she cried, and suddenly it was all real, every drop of blood that came from his face.

Watching her by his car, Sam picked up the phone. "Yes, sir, he was dealt with. Of course, I'm taking her to Austria. Don't worry….she will never know."

"He's a cute kid," Rico said to Claire, who was cradling Aaron. "Can I hold him?"

"N, he doesn't much like strangers," Claire said, suddenly turning slightly nervous.

Nearly 300 yards away, Locke stood with the group of survivors. "They found another Hatch. I am going to lead a group there. We're going to get guns and get our people back. But we have to work together…."

BANG! BANG!

Gunshots came from ahead. "AARON! AAARON!" came Claire's scream.

Charlie led the way towards Claire. Where had she gone? And Rico? And Aaron?

BANG! BANG! came the gunshots, screams of Claire, and cries from Aaron. And then they were silenced, all at once.

Note: Oh yeah, cliffhanger! Cliffhanger! I hate reading them, or watching them, but there's something about writing them that makes it fun lol! Thanks for reading. Thanks for the reviews, and you can keep reviewing, or review for the first time. And, hey, maybe review with a good idea for a new nickname Sawyer should give someone.